Life — June 15, 1911 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Bulls and Bears ‘ALL STREET presented a beauti- ful sight on Monday morning. The Bears were encamped on the right and the Bulls on the left, Huddled in the centre were prices of all sorts. At nine thirty the Bulls ran up a flag of truce. Emissaries were sent out and it was agreed that prices should not be molested unless public sentiment de- manded it. When this became known, prices quieted down somewhat, although here and there slight fluctuations per- sisted. On Tuesday the Bulls received orders from Washington to mobilize. Camp was immediately struck and maneuvers began. Attempts were made to corral prices. The Bears retreated to a more favorable position and Diaz was noti- fied, At a late hour on Tuesday prices were still at iarge. On Wednesday the attempt to keep prices within a narrow margin met with more success. At two thirty a shipment of lambs was received from the interior, This relieved the tension and many brokers who had not made a sale for months entered into negotia- tions with their tailors for new clothes. By this time prices began to be uneasy No word had been received from the Rio Grande for over fifteen minutes Brokers did not know what to do. Finally prices broke loose. There was a brief engagement. When the smoke cleared away, janitors were called iv to remove the killed and wounded. Losses about even, On Thursday the contending forces settled down for a long siege. Private advices were received that the corona- tion of King George had been timed with reference to the special session of Congress. This looked suspicious, to say the least. In order to allay this suspicion, several shares of stock changed hands by order of the Board of Governors. This worked so well that the process was repeated on day. On Saturday, as prices were quies- cent, the troops were ordered out on dress parade to receive the bank state- ment. Too Much Negro-baiting When I go to work upon the levee, Many happy darkies there I. sce. —Old Song. © also doubtless in New York one may see happy darkies if he looks for them in the right place—see many of them, no doubt. And yet things come to light in the papers, which coupled with things that come to private knowl- edge, make one wonder if, even here, negro life is all one glad sweet song. There was the Booker Washington incident the other day: an instance of the sort of casuaity thal may overtake a black man in a white man’s city. Then on May 17 there was the inci- dent of the little yellow man, Cain, who was smoking a pipe on an elevated car platform (which was quite wrong of him) and was rebuked by a white man who slapped his face. Pursuing that coward who would not stand up to his own fight, Cain ran amuck, killed two men with his knife, and wounded cight or nine more. Cain is a dangerous mu- latto, He had killed a man before and been in prison for it, but it was an out- rageous mistake to slap his face, The man who did it disappeared unhurt. Then on May 22 the negro, John White. went into a saloon wearing a green necktie. James McTaggert, a furniture mover, objected 10 White's necktie and ordered him to take it off. White refused. McTaggert grabbed for the necktie. Naturally White struck at him. When the police came White had a broken jaw, a broken nose and a frac- tured skull. He died in the hospital. McTaggert disappeared. At this writing his reappearance has not been reported. One hopes he is not permanently lost like the man who slapped the face of little Cain, New York is a cosmopolitan city. It should have more cosmopolitan manners. It is quite intolerable that light com- plexioned voters should regard them- selves as clothed with congenital police powers for the regulation of voters whose skins are dark. comicbooks.com